The Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, has said it has killed 50 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, around Lake Chad. The insurgents...
The Nigerian Army has launched two drones to help it fight the scourge of Kidnapping in Ondo and Ekiti states, which according to the army has...
A 30-year-old secondary school leaver turned quack doctor, Rafiu Naheem has been arrested by operatives of Zone 11 of the Nigeria Police Force, Osogbo, Osun State....
The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has launched an investigation into the incident of an Air Peace flight skidding off the runway at Port Harcourt International Airport...
The Rivers State Police Command on Saturday confirmed that three people lost their lives in the pipeline explosion that occurred in the state. The state police...
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has cleared the runway of the Port Harcourt Airport for normal flight operations. This is coming hours after an Air...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied reports making the rounds that its Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Mr Chidi Nwafor has resigned...
The Nigerian Army has stated that internally displaced persons in Zamfara State are returning to their villages due to an improvement in the security situation in...
Pharmacists in the country have warned of an imminent rise in the price of drugs in the country. This increment is expected to be 100 per...
Despite a warning from government, and the police, against the extrajudicial killing of suspected bandits in the state, Zamfara State Volunteers Group Association have said they...
The Nigerian Air Force on Friday In Kano, reactivated three L-39ZA aircraft, namely, NAF352, NAF354 and NAF364. The L-39ZA aircraft was handed over by Czech-based Company,...
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested the Divisional Police Officer of Mashi, SP Garba Talawai and his girlfriend, Sadiya Danyaya, over the death of the...
One Ogwu Christian, who was dismissed from the police has been arrested in Port Harcourt for the killing of the mother of his fiancee,Veronica Obiejieogo. The...
Police in Borno state have revealed that they arrested two “high profile’’ Boko haram commanders believed to have participated in attacks on security locations in Nigeria...
The Lagos State Government has revealed that it is investigating two Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officers accused of extortion in the Ikoyi area of...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday apologised to 2019 Batch ‘B’ corps members over the deplorable state of the orientation camp in the state. At...
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decried the dismissal of Nigerian Professor, Austin Nwagbara, by the University...
The Operatives of FCT Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old man, Mustapha Aliyu who allegedly beheaded four children at the rate of 170,000 each. The children...
Weeks after the withdrawal of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the prosecution of Sen Danjuma Goje in an alleged N6 billion fraud case,...
The Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is making moves to elect new party officials following a decision by the National Working Committee...
Journalists on Thursday gathered at Sheraton Hotel Lagos for the 2019 Data Journalism Masterclass organised by the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism (RCDIJ). The...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday said it would ensure stricter measures in the use and distribution of Dichlorvos...
A female corps member, Halima Umar, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram since January has regained her freedom. The corps member, who hails from Gwoza, was...
A 32-year-old nurse, Mrs. Leritshimwa Diyal, has confessed to stealing a three-day-old baby in Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, because of her desire to have someone who...
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has revealed its interest to partner with Ripples Nigeria, one of Nigeria’s foremost online news platforms, in impacting journalist across...
The kidnapped son of ex-Minister of Health, Proof. Isaac Adewole, Dayo, has been released by his abductors. Dayo was released less than 24 hours after he...
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday said it’s troops have uncovered and destroyed new camps been used by Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province terrorists....
Journalists in Nigeria are set to receive intensive training on data journalism from one of Nigeria’s foremost civil society organisations, Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given marching orders to security agencies in the country to immediately end the violence ravaging Taraba State. The president gave the order...
The Federal Government on Wednesday denied rumours of any fresh case of Ebola in the country, saying efforts have heightened at the various ports to ensure...
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday decried high rate of drug abuse in northern parts of the country, calling all stakeholders not to...
Former Inspector-General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, on Wednesday obtained the permission of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, to file his no-case submission out...
The Tax Appeal Tribunal, sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, reversed N29.2 million the Federal Inland Revenue Service’s (FIRS) imposed as value added tax on Infinity Trust...
A gas pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Tuesday exploded along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Although, there were no causalities or fire outbreak the...
The management of the University of Ibadan has said it would not go beyond the 200 benchmark it has set for admission into the institution. JAMB...
Worried by hazards in the workplace, the Lagos State government has expressed concerns over safety in the state’s health care system. Speaking at a two-day workplace...
The Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday denied promising to fix the traffic problem on Oshodi-Apapa expressway within sixty days of his inauguration. Sanwo-Olu who...
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on Tuesday, sentenced a 22-year-old baker, Lawal Kamoru, to 13 years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old girl. The convict...
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has given Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) seven days to fish out the criminal elements among them. OPC...
A 67-year-old businesswoman, Wuraola Folashade Oluloye, was on Tuesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. after her arrest for hacking a First Bank Plc account...
Men of Nigerian Navy have destroyed no fewer than 50 illegal refineries around Yeye, Burutu and Ibafa creeks in Delta State. During a briefing in Warri...
In efforts to put an end to smuggling activities in the country, the Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) has seized several items that...
The British Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO, has warned British nationals against travelling to about 21 states in Nigeria. The travel advisory, posted...
While investigation into the missing N6.8million at the Kano Zoological gardens is still ongoing, the state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has stated that there is no gorilla...
A federal lawmaker from Ondo State, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo has warned the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu over the ambushed suffered by some protesting youth at the...
Reverend Supo Ayokunle, has been re-elected as the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for another three-year term. Reverend Ayokunle emerged winner of...
United Nations Population Division has revealed, according to statistics, that the population of the world has been estimated at 7,713,469,000. The result which was released on...
A Nigerian identified as Jeffrey Ewohime has been arrested by the police in London after allegedly destroying seven cars and property at the Nigerian High Commission...
An official of the Kano Zoological Garden has informed that the huge some of money a finance officer of the zoo claimed to have been swallowed...
Authorities of the Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State, have been accused of persecuting Muslim students in the institution by forcing them to attend church service on...
